Josef Albers

Date/place of birth

19. March 1888 BottropDeutschland

Day/place of death

25. March 1976 New HavenConnecticutUnited States

Josef Albers - biography

Josef Albers was born on 19 March 1888 in Bottrop, Germany. Following apprenticeship and work as a teacher in Büren, in 1913 he began studying at the Royal School of Art in Berlin, the Arts and Crafts School in Essen and the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1920, he moved to the Bauhaus in Weimar to continue his studies. During his time there, he created the so-called Scherbenbilder (shard pictures), for which he searched for old bottles on rubbish dumps and assembled them into coloured mosaics. 

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ArtistArtworkPrice (incl. premium)
Josef Albers Homage to the Square €676.000
Josef Albers Homage to the Square €616.000
Josef Albers Beaker €365.400
Josef Albers Homage to the Squares "Stele and Patina" €345.100
Josef Albers Study to Homage to the Square: Warm Welcom €285.200
Josef Albers Study to Homage to the Square: "Lighting up" €238.000